Filter.



1.1L JEWELL..

FILTER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 6,1907.

Patented May 11, 1909a INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

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IRA n. JEWELL, or onIcAco, ILLINoIs.

Firman.

Patented May 11, 1909.

Application filed February 6, 1907. Serial No. 355,984.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA I-I. JEWELL, a citi* Zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, iii the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefulFilter,

of which the following is a description.

My invention belongs to that general class of devices in which a fluid is treated by permitting it to ercolate through a granular bed, and in w ich means are provided for cleansing the bed from time to time, as necessity may require.

My invention has for its object a simple and effective filter employing such a method of filtration, and of cleansing the bed.

To this end it consists of the novel structure herein set forth, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, wherein like or correspending reference characters indicate like or corres ondin arts Fi ure 1 is a vertical section of a filter of the general Vtype referred v to, commonly known as a pressure iilter,4

constructed to carry out my invention in its Fig. 2 is a fragmentary cross* section of the construction shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 isa detail of a modification of a certain part of the filter,

In the drawings, Irepresents a suitable tank which is preferably closed at the top,

and provided with a pipe 2 controlled by a valve 3.

4 is the bottom of the tank and Lpositioned above the bottom of the tank and spaced therefrom is a sup orting shelf or bottom 5 provided with a p urality of inlets 6, each provided with a screen or equivalent part 7. The distance between the bottom 4 and the screen bottom 5, is sufficient to provide a chamber 8 for the reception ofthe filtered liquid when downward filtration is employed. A pi e 9, provided with a valve 10, serves to con uct the fluid from the chamber 8.

Arranged outside of the tank 1 is a secondary inclosing tank 11 spaced from the tank 1 to rovide a chamber 12. The annular cham er 12 is provided ,with an inlet )ipe 13, controlled by a valve 14, and by a rain pipe 15, controlled by valve 16. A receiving core 17 is positioned within the bed 18, a pipe 19 controlled by valve 20, serving to conduct the filtered water from the core.

In the form shown in Fig. 1, a plurality of tank'l, serves to admit fluid from the annular chamber 12 to the Iilter bed. A lurality of hoods 22, corresponding in num er with the rows of apertures 21, are secured to the inner wall of the tank 1', and extend inward at an angle therefrom, covering the apertures 21, as shown.

When employedin lateral filtration alone, the valve 3 in the pipe 2, and 10 inthe pipe 9, are closed. The fiuid is admitted through the pipe 13 to the annular chamber 12, and thence to the spaces beneath `the several hoods 22. From this point the liquid percolates through the bed, laterally to the core 17 and is thence conducted by the pipe `tion of lvertical filtration, the valve 3 in the pipe 2 .is opened, perniittin the entrance of the liuid that point, an the valve 10 in the pipe 9 is also opened, drawing off the. -iiltered water from the chamber 8.

Vlhen it is desired to cleanse the bed, the valves 10 and 20 are closed, while the valve 3 in the pipe 2 is opened, for the purpose of discharging the waste water. The ressure through the lateral openings 21 will cause the bed in -proximity to the hoods 22 to liquefy to a certain extent, and the increased agitation by the introduction of the water in a lateral direction, will serve to agitate the bed and carry off any material deposited in the several spaces below the hoods. The waste water, as before stated, after filling the tank esca es by way of the pipe 2.

It will e observed that in the process of washing, the ratio of the outlet resistance, as compared to the inlet pressure, is decreased, causing a more rapid now of the fluid ,through the apertures 12, to secure the necessary liquefying and agitation. of the bed; that is to say, during the ordinary process of filtration, the resistance of the outlet such as compared with the inlet pressure, that the bed is not agitated, but the fluid gradually percolates therethrough, finally escaping from the bed, as before described. When washing the bed, however, the ratio between the outlet resistance and inlet pressure must be changed, to secure a more rapid current ofthe fluid through the bed. It is obvious that while the\filter shown in Fig. 1 is adapted for combined use, both as to filtering and washing, a slight modification will adaptthe lateral movement of the fluid to Washing purposes only. ln such a construction, the outer tank 1l may be dispensed With, and only a 'few of' the loWer hoods employed, suitable pipe connections being made to conduct the Wash Water to the iilter at those points.

if, in the form shown, it be desired to secure an upward Washing of the bed alone, the fluid may be permitted to iill the annular chamber 12, When the valve 14 Will then be closed; the valve 2O Will be closed, and the Wash Water will be admitted through the pipe 9, the Waste Water escaping through the pipe 2, as before described. By this means there Will be no tendency of the current bcneath the hoods, and through the apertures 2l, as the Water or fluid in the chamber 12 Will prevent such action. The small pipe l5 With its valve 16 may be employed to drain the chamber 12 to carry oii any contained sediment arising from sedimentation therein.

As shown in 2, the apertures 2l preferably extend around the tank l, being arranged at regular intervals on the same horizontal line, a hood 22 being positioned iinmediately above each horizontal row of apertures.

Fig. 3 shows a modiiied form, principallyT for Washing purposes. The pipe 23, as shown, may be vertically inserted in the bed at one or more points, and provided with a plurality of hoods 24 positioned thereon, each covering a horizontal row of apertures 25. During the filtering operation, the iluid Will enter the pipe and escape through the apertures 25 beneath the hoods 24, as before described7 percolating thereafter through the bed, and iinally escaping as set tion7 its current or velocity being increa'lsed ,l as before set forth.

It is obvious that il desired the cleansing operation may he accomplished hy the coop eration of the upward reverse current with the lateral current referred to. ln this connection a reverse current may also he driven through the core 17, securing simultaneous agitation of the bed in three directions in the cleansing operation.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure hy Let ters-Patent is:

A Yliltering apparatus comprising` a easing closed at the top and bottom and having perforate side Walls, a plurality ol superposed downwardly directed and separated deilector plates secured. to the inner wall el' said casing, a second easing surrounding lh first named easing, means ler conducting lluid to said second easing, a eentrally disposed perforate core, and a granula lzed surrounding said core said plates being con siderahly greater in width than the dislanet` bets/'een them and said plates lying at an angle appro-ziniating ninety degrees to the perforate side Walls of the casing as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony Where/oli, .l have hereunto signed my naine in the presence of two suhseril/-ing witnesses.

IHA li. Jill NELL.

Witnessesz E. A. GARDNER, CHAnLns I. COBB. 

